Under the US $5.8 million regional project, St. Kitts and Nevis received US $900,000 to support reform efforts, including the provision of training, capacity building, and technical assistance to the New Horizons Rehabilitation Centre, the Magistrates Court, and the Department of Probation and Child Services.
Farmers and communities in Antigua and Barbuda are better equipped to withstand drought, improve food production, and ultimately enhance the country’s resilience to the negative impacts of a changing climate. The United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Linda Taglialatela, highlighted this positive development while addressing a close out ceremony for the Antigua arm of the US$9.5 million “Rallying the Region to Action on Climate Change (RRACC)” Project in the OECS.
The United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Linda Taglialatela, congratulated government officials in Antigua and Barbuda for their ongoing juvenile justice reform efforts during a close out ceremony for the Antigua segment of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Juvenile Justice Reform Project (JJRP) in the OECS.
At-risk youth are more successfully reintegrating into society and the OECS region’s juvenile justice landscape is transforming as a result of a U.S. Government supported program implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). United States Government (USG) officials, their St. Lucian counterparts, and other partners recently met to close out activities in St. Lucia and celebrate the four-year US $5.8 million Juvenile Justice Reform Project’s (JJRP) successes.
At-risk youth in Grenada, including those in conflict with the law, now have a greater opportunity for successful reintegration into their communities. This exciting development is a result of the official opening of the Bacolet Juvenile Rehabilitation Centre, one of the milestones of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID)-supported Juvenile Justice Reform Project (JJRP) in the OECS.
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